Barking Up the Wrong Tree: Junk Trees

24 June 2013

Junk Trees

Below is information from 3 separate trees. The 3 tree owners have not signed in for over a year and these are the only trees attached to their profiles.
More after the jump.

Johnny Depp
B: 4 june 1992 in arizona, america
M: 21 Jan 2007 in Kentucky, america to Private Spouse; Note: bleh bleh
D: 17 july 2007 in buckinghamshire England

CHILD with Private Spouse
Poooopeh Depp
B: 14 may 1996 in tokyo, japan
D: 14 may 1997 in algarve portugal

11 more profiles on this tree, all private.

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johnny depp
B: september 2, 1467 in madrid, spain
D: march 3, 1998 in barcelona, spain

SPOUSE
mandy moore
B: June 16, 1564 in madrid, spain
D: june 16, 1999 in houston, texas

A child (private) is the only other profile on this tree.

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Johnny Depp
B: 1456 in South Salmara, Assam, India

MOTHER
Heidi Klum (1234-1334)

OTHER PUBLIC PROFILES ON THIS TREE
Adrianna Jessica Menting, b. December 16 in Mexico
Spouse: Private, grandson of "Johnny Depp"
Father: Zeus Menting, b. 1000 in Greece
Mother: Hera Ding Dong, b. 900 in Oceana County, Michigan, USA

This tree has 10 other profiles, all private.

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While hiring overseers to police the trees is not practical or financially feasible, shouldn't those that are utter nonsense be taken down? How many of the almost 3 billion trees on Ancestry (over 2 billion public and over 700 million private) are like these? How much do they affect the performance of Ancestry's servers?
I would think ridiculous photos and clickophile trees cause more site issues than trees like these three but these trees would be easier eliminate. What do you think?

Thanks to Susan for the links to these profiles ;-)
If you have a profile to suggest please send a link to buwtree(at)gmail(dot)com.

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2 comments:

STICKLE ONSMonday, 24 June, 2013
Without hiring "overseers to police the trees" submitted by members, there are a number of positive things that ANCESTRY could do. By improving the quality of member-submitted data, they would be making a huge positive contribution to creating something like a 'genealogical community.' The best way to do this would be through some sort of wiki-like member feedback mechanism .... there are a variety of ways that it could be implemented. None of them are perfect, but any of them would be preferable to the chaos that exists now. The cynic in me expects that none of them will be implemented for the simple reason that ANCESTRY's revenue stream is based entirely on quantity, not quality.
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Barking has been "deemed offensive to [Ancestry.com's] brand" and is banned from their Facebook pages. In Ancestry's "Community" comments with links to Barking are censored.
Dear Emma, Hannah, Jemima, Mary Jane, and all of her other personalities agree that I use "the banner of 'education' to actually mock, deride and laugh at [Ancestry's] own customers" and I "can make [my] point concerning tree inaccuracies & cock-ups and their effect on our 'hints' system without being downright unpleasant and sarcastic about it."
Allen says, “your cute little blog is a waste of bandwidth at best”
Ann thinks I'm "...copying and pasting mistakes on trees and calling it a blog" and that my readers are "mean-spirited people...who like to have a laugh at the expense of others."
Sue was really offended by the “...continual stream of sarcasm and constant poking fun...What a nasty taste in my mouth your blog left me with. Unpleasant, sarcastic and jeering at people who you obviously see as your intellectual inferiors. Won't be reading that again.”
And finally from Les, "You truly are a horrible woman, pointing out mistakes is one thing but blatantly laughing and taking the p is completely out of order."

Why?

Researching our family histories we are bound to make mistakes. Hopefully we are quick to correct them. Unfortunately some people refuse to read or think before adding information to their family trees. Some trees have been abandoned so the errors are there for eternity. Here we will laugh, mock and shake our heads at the carelessness, stupidity and/or ignorance of those errors.
All examples are taken from trees published online.
I'll also post tips occasionally, though the messed up trees are a great example of what NOT to do.
If you have an online tree to suggest for a future post please send me a link: buwtree(at)gmail(dot)com

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1. Copyright: Barking Up the Wrong Tree is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License and is owned and administered by Loretta Gillespie.

2. Content: Barking Up the Wrong Tree is responsible for the content of this site, not including visitor comments. Barking Up the Wrong Tree reflects the personal views and opinions of Loretta Gillespie.

3. Credit: Credit is not given to tree owners to protect the clueless. A tree owner who discovers their tree on this site should correct their mistakes so no one else realizes they were once a clickophile.

4. Accuracy and Validity: While there are helpful pointers on Barking Up the Wrong Tree a majority of posts are intended to be humorous. The disastrous trees are copied exactly as they appear on Ancestry.com. These trees are being used to show others what NOT to do.

5. Images: Attempts are made to source images used despite the fact that the trees they are taken from do not include source information.

6. Comments: Barking Up the Wrong Tree will exercise its right to delete comments which are deemed to be spam, offensive, childish or just plain stupid.

7. Liability: The content at Barking Up the Wrong Tree is not to be taken as fact nor absolute. Barking Up the Wrong Tree contains posts that are humorous and posts that are research tips. Barking Up the Wrong Tree is not responsible for anyone who cannot tell the difference between the two. The sites that Barking Up the Wrong Tree links to via hyperlinks are not under its control. Those sites are responsible for the content of those sites. If you do not find the humor on Barking Up the Wrong Tree to your taste then stop reading. If you choose instead to send an email to the owner it may be published on Barking Up the Wrong Tree and mocked publicly.

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